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Maple Crest senior living community's April activity calendar is now on the Icon. It is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

 

Hilty Memorial Home's annual Easter egg hunt, sponsored by Pandora Mother's Club, will take place at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 30.
 

It's ONU versus Notre Dame in football - and the Polar Bears are coached by a Bluffton resident.

Sort of.

Ohio Northern University engineering students under the direction of Bluffton resident, J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of mechanical engineering, along with Sami Khorbotly, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, have created a team of robotic football players.

Maple Crest residents Larry Burkholder, Jean Ann Szabo and Joanne Niswander presented a concert of several classical works at the senior living community on March 15. Click for more details.

Maple Crest hosted a concert featuring three of its talented musician-residents on March 15.  Larry Burkhalter, playing the violin, was accompanied by pianists Joanne Niswander and Jean Szabo. Burkholder's daughter, Karol Crosbie, served as the Emcee for the evening. 

Burkholder, a university music professor, symphony conductor and long-recognized violinist, was pleased to discover that Niswander and Szabo, also experienced musicians, were willing to work with him on several complex pieces. 

The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association has organized its traditional Good Friday activities for the Bluffton community.

On Good Friday, March 29, all are welcome to the annual Cross Walk. This year the walk begins at English Lutheran Church at 11:30 a.m.

From there the walk proceeds to:

• St. John's United Church of Christ,
• Bluffton Presbyterian,
• First Mennonite,
• First United Methodist
• and ends at St. Mary's Catholic Church.

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